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cardanome05/03/20251 replyview on HN

If I plan out how to kill someone, get the right weapon and execute on my plan, yeah that is murder.

If I see a donation stand for children in Africa and decide to rather buy a video game from that money, well some children are going to starve because of my decision but I haven't exactly killed them.

Blaming Mao for a famine is completely insane if you are not super brainwashed. He was a human not a god.

But considering you took the highest death toll estimation you could find already shows you are not interested in facts but in pushing a narrative.


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mcv05/04/2025

If only Mao had been aware that he was human and not a god. He didn't allow any criticism of his ideas, and that makes him entirely culpable for the results.